Machine Learning: What Is It Really Good For?

Machine learning is definitely a confusing term. Is it AI or something different? Well, its actually a subset of AI (which, by the way, is a massive category). "Machine learning is a method of analyzing data using an analytical model that is built automatically, or'learned', from training data," said Rick Negrin, who is the VP of Product Development at MemSQL. "The idea is that the model gets better as you feed it more data points." There are two key steps with machine learning.